The El Dakhleya Courier
The terraces7 Jun 2027
Anger at El Dakhleya spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Market7 Jun 2027
Mohamed Ehab hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what El Dakhleya can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
Ali Hussein is a medical away from El Dakhleya
The deal with Wadi Degla is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Sherif Dabo in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at El Dakhleya this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Jonathan Mensah falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
Al Gaish tell El Dakhleya: Ahmed Khaled is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Mohamed Ehab stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Mohamed Ehab and El Dakhleya agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Too much change too quickly at El Dakhleya
7 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
El Dakhleya ask about Ali Hamdi
A loan enquiry to Masr El Makasa: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
In brief
- Market A long bet from El Dakhleya on Bernardo Grezel
- The dugout When it matters, Reda Mohamed plays
- Boardroom Open for business: El Dakhleya enter the window